Conveyor power priorities not respected when charging jump drive

_alphaBeta_ shared this bug 5 years ago
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Scenario: one jump drive on a ship with one small reactor. When the jump drive is charging, conveyors go yellow and fail to move anything I tried, including oxygen to air vents and hydrogen to hydrogen thrusters.

According to the wiki's power system priorities, conveyors are prioritized above jump drive charging. Even if the wiki is outdated a bit here, it doesn't make sense for jump drive charging to compromise life support via air vents etc. Other aspects of the aforementioned power system priorities seem to be intact, such as refining. Even then, without conveyors, it's very tedious. The conveyor tube wiki article talks about yellow conveyors as being in a reduced power mode that still moves ammo. This really shouldn't be a reduced power situation, however, given the priorities. Even so, another part of this bug is the yellow conveyors failed to move anything in this scenario, including ammo.

More feedback then bug, I'd recommend jump drive charging be placed further down on the priorities below gyroscopes and thrusters (electric). It breaks immersion to have most ships be crippled by a jump drive charge, which should only be pulling excess power, if available. It's just tedious extra clicks to suspend charging for a few moments for a course correction and then resume charging once again.

Some additional discussion here on the forums.

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im sure this is an intended feature, conveyors being given the lowest power priority so if your ship does not have enough power the conveyor network shuts down, it is more recent than the wiki page, so you just have to make sure you have sufficient power to charge jump drive and have some left over for other things, though it would be nice if we had a slider to control the charging input level :)

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